Score a table for Restaurant Week lunch

By
Justin Rude

Restaurant Week is here, and many dinner reservations have disappeared. If you've waited this long, chances are you aren't going to have much luck finding a table at any of the city's trendier spots -- unless you try lunch.

Mid-day reservations are one of the best ways to take advantage of the prix fixe promotion without running into service nightmares and an overwhelmed kitchen. And often, the lunch menus are just as exciting as the dinner options. Just check out this one from Ris:

The first course is a choice of the soup of the day; an endive, walnut and smokey blue cheese salad with pears, candied walnuts and port vinaigrette; or gnudi, ricotta dumplings on tomato and eggplant fondue with spinach and crisp prosciutto.

There are plenty of great options on lunch menus around town. I could go for the pulled duck sandwich at Restaurant 3, the beef tongue taco at Oyamel and the black pepper tagliatelle at Siroc, all restaurants with tables open for lunch. Here's a list of more places where you can still score a lunch reservation: